[BRIEF NOTE] Cruelties and Stupidites re: Bhopal

[rfmcdonald]

From a comments thread on the Bhopal disaster at the Samizdata blog, referring to the residents of the slums surrounding the Union Carbine factory and their culpability:

They had all of India to live in. They didn't have to continually squat in the surrounds of what they thought was a rich American factory that they unaccountably believed they were going to get something out of. They were deeply ignorant people who couldn't read and had probably never seen a television in their lives. They were operating out of another age, and they simply refused to leave when they were chased away because they didn't believe the warnings.

It's people like these who give libertarians a bad name.